Always make stock in a large quantity and freeze it in plastic bags. That way, when you want to make a nice soup or boil veggies, you can simply pull the bag out of the freezer.

My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.